Cyanogen , the maker of an alternative version of Android , on Tuesday announced that it was going modular. Future releases of its open source firmware product will not support a full stack of the Android OS. The new modular setup will bring...

... European Commission on Wednesday charged that Google breached EU antitrust rules by seeking to maintain and expand the dominance of its Android operating system. "A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in Europe," said the EC's antitrust...

Google last week announced a developer preview of Android N, the forthcoming release of its mobile operating system. The release came early; it was widely expected to be unveiled in May at Google I/O 2016, the Google developers conference.

Google's Android Wear on Thursday got its first major update, bringing GPS support and offline music capabilities to the wearables platform. "Android Wear is great for tracking things like route, distance and speed," wrote Kenny Stoltz, Android Wear product manager. "Before today, you...

... quick and easy way to refresh an aging Android smartphone phone is to replace the home screen with a Launcher. Launchers are skins with themes and unique behaviors, like transparency and scrolling styles. Here's a look at the top five, best-performing free...

That blind trust is just what app makers count on. Android users, especially, are complacent about synchronizing apps on multiple devices. Even worse is the practice of linking bank and social networking accounts with cloud storage so that a conduit is always open...

Google's Plans for Android in Cars Google is developing new Android platform features that will make automobiles connected Android devices. It is working with United States government agencies such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to ensure the safety...

... Internet is abuzz with news that Google has teamed up with food giant Nestle to name the next version of Android after the latter's famous chocolate bar -- KitKat -- rather than continue its tradition of nonbranded nomenclature with the name "Key...

... Android device owners who use Bitcoins may have their digital currency stolen because of a security flaw in Android, the Bitcoin Foundation has warned . The problem may lie in Android's implementation of the java.security.SecureRandom application programming interface in Java.

However, because these devices are already off the books -- meaning we've already absorbed their acquisition costs -- adapting them for specific security functions can mean achieving certain goals practically for free. Android devices make particularly good candidates for this: They're open,...

... Rubin, the man who helped maneuver Android into the No. 1 mobile OS position, is stepping down as head of Android at Google . Taking Rubin's place will be browser and applications chief Sundar Pichai. The reshuffling effectively folds Google's mobile OS,...

... Android has become a mobile malware magnet, according to F-Secure . A whopping 79 percent of all mobile malware targeted the Google OS in 2012, based on a new report from the firm. That was up from 66.7 percent in 2011 and...

The mobile operating system race continues to be a battle between Apple's iOS and Google's Android . Sales of Android units more than doubled from the same quarter last year, with 122.5 million units shipped. The system grabbed a 72.4 percent share...

... international botnet could be using infected Android handsets to send out massive amounts of spam, Microsoft antispam engineer Terry Zink said in a Thursday blog posts on MSDN. Zink reportedly identified the botnet and its Google Android connection by examining the headers...

... been obvious for some time now that Microsoft is a big Android fan , thanks to the tidy sums of cash the software giant has managed to extract from the companies that use it. What wasn't necessarily apparent until recently, however, is...